Jay Ryan

Just off Irving Park Road in North Center, on one of those lonesome industrial strips where the bricks and mortar blend effortlessly with the overcast Chicago afternoon, there is a building you cannot enter, you are not invited to visit and you would probably not go to anyway. Literally and metaphorically. It is a petri dish of tasteful avant-garde, a former photo album factory downsized and divvied into so many artisan studios that it has become a microcosm of 21st-century Chicago hipsterdom. In one corner, you find the independent CHIRP Radio; down the hall, a few concert and event poster-makers; on a different floor, the adventurous Third Coast Percussion, and the Grammy-winning chamber...

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Just off Irving Park Road in North Center, on one of those lonesome industrial strips where the bricks and mortar blend effortlessly with the overcast Chicago afternoon, there is a building you cannot enter, you are not invited to visit and you would...